In August 2017 he joins Imperial College London as a lecturer. He will be starting up his own independent research group in Imperial’s School of Bioengineering. He will continue to collaborate with the team in Nottingham.

Dr Celiz said: “The Marie Curie Fellowship has allowed me the opportunity to work with world-leading scientists and develop my own independent future research program in regenerative dentistry”

Professor Alexander said: “Adam’s Marie Curie fellowship has been a great success, showing his great promise as a researcher and the power of international mobility scholarships in training outstanding scientists.”

Larry Hench, inventor of bioglass – the first synthetic material that bonds to living tissues - died last December aged 77.